Master builders : a guide to famous American architects

Maddex, Diane. (Added Author). National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. (Added Author).

Summary: This volume in the Building Watchers series of pocket guides to U.S. architecture presents the work of 32 single builders and seven partnerships in chronological order. With essays by noted architectural authorities and 350 drawings and photographs, the volume answers questions about architects and builders who have left indelible marks on American architecture. Beginning with William Thornton (1764-1828), the guide introduces America's well-known buildings, from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument. It answers such questions as: which architect designed the pedestal for the statue of Liberty? Who put a Chippendale pediment atop a skyscraper? Who was the only American architect who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Civil War? ISBN 0-89133-111-5 (pbk.): $9.95 (For use only in the library).

Record details

ISBN: 0891331115
ISBN: 9780891331117
ISBN: 0471144029
ISBN: 9780471144021
Physical Description: print
203 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 11 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, ©1985.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"National Trust for Historic Preservation."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	William Thornton / C.M. Harris -- Benjamin H. Latrobe / Paul F. Norton -- Charles Bulfinch / Harold Kirker -- Thomas Jefferson / William L. Beiswanger -- Robert Mills / John M. Bryan -- William Strickland / Nancy Halverson Schless -- John Haviland / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- Richard Upjohn / Phoebe Stanton -- Thomas U. Walter / Robert B. Ennis -- James Renwick / Selma Rattner -- Orson Squire Fowler / W. Ray Luce -- Alexander J. Davis / Jane B. Davies -- Andrew Jackson Downing / George B. Tatum -- Frederick Law Olmsted / Laura Wood Roper -- Pattern books / David Gebhard -- Alfred B. Mullett / Antoinette J. Lee -- Henry Hobson Richardson / Jeffrey Karl Ochsner -- Frank Furness / James F. O'Gorman -- Richard Morris Hunt / Paul R. Baker -- McKim, Mead and White / Leland M. Roth -- William Le Baron Jenney / Theodore Turak -- Burnham and Root / Thomas S. Hines -- Adler and Sullivan / Paul E. Sprague -- Cass Gilbert / Patricia Murphy -- Cram and Goodhue / Richard Oliver -- Frank Lloyd Wright / H. Allen Brooks -- Greene and Greene / Randell L. Makinson -- Bernard Maybeck / Richard Longstreth -- Julia Morgan / Sara Holmes Boutelle -- Addison Mizner / Donald W. Curl -- Irving J. Gill / David Gebhard and Bruce Kamerling -- Richard Neutra / Alson Clark -- Walter Gropius / James Marston Fitch -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / David Spaeth -- Eero Saarinen / Peter C. Papademetriou -- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / Albert Bush-Brown -- Louis I. Kahn / John Lobell -- Philip Johnson / Carleton Knight III -- I.M. Pei / Peter Blake -- Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown / John Andrew Gallery.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	At bottom of title page: National Trust for Historic Preservation.